The Michael Knowles Show - September 28, 2026


Ep. 2069 - The Pope MOGS Modernity And Liberalism In France

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00:01:54 abortion, assisted suicide, and the French Revolution. The Pope also said mass in front
00:02:00 of nearly a million people. I guess Catholicism is not totally dead over there in France. Then
00:02:05 back to the States, 50,000 people flocked to Missouri to attend mass and venerate the jawbone
00:02:11 of a bishop. People clearly, at the very least, have a lot of questions about the Catholic faith.
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00:03:43 news. Before we get into all the bad political news, there is some really good stuff. France,
00:03:47 speaking of jihadis, France has had some troubles over the last 250 years. France,
00:03:54 the eldest daughter to the church, also the site of one of the worst events in the history of the
00:03:59 world, the French Revolution. France, which is just always gumming everything up, spreading 0.96
00:04:04 secularism, inviting all of the Muslims to come and take over the country. It's just, it's France. 1.00
00:04:11 I mean, we don't even, we renamed French fries. That's how irritating the French became. 1.00
00:04:16 And yet, even in that decadent, liberal, secular, riot-filled, increasingly Islamic France, the Pope shows up, and everybody is filled with awe and wonder. 1.00
00:04:31 The Pope shows up, he holds an open-air mass on the Champs-Élysées. 1.00
00:04:36 Upwards of a million people showed up.
00:04:38 I think it was like 700,000, maybe more people just lining the streets of France.
00:04:42 And I know a lot of people are worried because they think that recent pontificates have been kind of liberal.
00:04:47 They say, oh, no, the pope is going to go there, and he's just going to talk about how we need to welcome even more Muslim immigrants.
00:04:52 And we need to have even more liberal policies.
00:04:54 And that's not what happened.
00:04:56 The pope, I'll just get through a few highlights of this brief official visit to France.
00:05:01 The pope takes square aim at an increasing scourge, a particularly left-wing policy taking over the West.
00:05:08 That is assisted suicide.
00:05:10 I know that for some of you, because of particular illness, at times terrible pain, your horizon
00:05:25 may appear dark, uncertain and without hope. But no human law should ever make you lose
00:05:34 the certainty of your dignity.
00:05:37 On the contrary, it is precisely in the name
00:05:40 of this inalienable dignity of the human person
00:05:43 that we must reject the temptation
00:05:46 to cause death under the guise of false compassion.
00:05:52 It is impossible to regard causing death
00:05:55 as something normal.
00:05:57 What is legal is not necessarily moral.
00:06:02 Beautiful.
00:06:02 He goes on, those are just the highlights.
00:06:04 He's talking about assisted suicide, which now kills 5% of the Canadians who die every
00:06:11 single year in America's Evil Top Hat, which has been legalized throughout Europe and which
00:06:16 has led to that story we talked about even, what was it, four days ago, five days ago?
00:06:23 Medical assistance in dying, euthanasia against the patient's will.
00:06:28 Euthanasia against the patient's will is called murder. 0.72
00:06:30 You hear these stories out of Amsterdam, out of Belgium, of elderly people, mentally handicapped
00:06:36 people, poor people, depressed people who are being killed.
00:06:39 They're being killed by the state because the state doesn't want to pay for their medical
00:06:42 care.
00:06:43 We're told that the left, all they want to do is offer us free health care.
00:06:46 The free health care is a lethal injection.
00:06:49 And the Pope shows up, and the Pope, who has this little bit of a reputation as kind of
00:06:52 a liberal, he shows up to France, this seat of European liberalism, and he goes up and
00:06:57 he says, enough is enough.
00:06:59 This is always immoral, always unacceptable. The intentional killing should never be considered a
00:07:05 normal thing. In certain cases, it might be justified, like in the case of a just war,
00:07:10 in the case of self-defense, in the case of double effect. But this should never be considered
00:07:15 normal. And by the way, just because something is legal according to the civil law does not mean
00:07:20 that it's moral. So he's taking aim at this positivist vision of law that says that if
00:07:24 legislators put their name on a piece of paper that somehow something becomes licit in the true
00:07:30 sense. Beautiful, profoundly conservative, deeply Christian, very, very important. He's completely
00:07:35 right when it comes to assisted suicide. He then, on the Champs-Élysées, he decides to hold mass.
00:07:43 And who does he choose to serve at mass? In the Catholic mass, we have altar servers.
00:07:47 he chooses six people with down syndrome and why does he choose the people with down syndrome one
00:07:55 to affirm the dignity of every human being including people with mental disabilities
00:07:58 but two because not only is he taking aim at assisted suicide killing the elderly mostly
00:08:03 along with the mentally handicapped and the desperate but he's also taking aim at abortion
00:08:09 because in france 96 percent of of people who have down syndrome are murdered in the womb
00:08:15 by the people, by their mothers
00:08:17 with the sanction of the state.
00:08:19 And so what does he do?
00:08:21 The Pope shows up to France
00:08:22 and he says, I'm choosing the survivors,
00:08:25 the people who survived being murdered
00:08:26 with Down syndrome.
00:08:27 I'm going to choose them to serve
00:08:29 at the holy sacrifice of the mass.
00:08:31 The most important thing we Catholics believe
00:08:33 in the entire world,
00:08:35 in the very presence of God himself,
00:08:37 body, blood, soul, and divinity
00:08:39 in the blessed sacrament.
00:08:41 Beautiful, beautiful statement from the Pope.
00:08:43 then what you'd expect in modern France you know if if you were to show up and do some kind of 0.87
00:08:50 mosque service if you were going to play that you know call to prayer you'd expect that would fill
00:08:55 the Champs Elysees but no no this was mass and all the people show up almost a million people
00:09:02 as far as the eye can see if the Champs Elysees were longer there would have been more people
00:09:06 then also on the Champs Elysees you have priests not the pope but priests just showing up sitting
00:09:12 on little blocks and chairs, hearing confessions, and all these people coming up and giving their
00:09:18 confessions. Who knows? Some of these people might not have been to confession in months or years or
00:09:23 decades for that matter, going up, hearing their confessions, which comes from the gospel when
00:09:27 Christ says, I give you the Holy Spirit. You have the power to forgive sins, whose sins you forgive
00:09:33 are forgiven, whose sins you retain are retained. This is where the sacrament of confession comes
00:09:38 from. And the priests are just doling out God's grace and God's mercy. In France, you never
00:09:44 thought, you didn't think this was possible to happen maybe anywhere in the world today,
00:09:48 but especially not in France. And then the cherry on top, cherry on top of the sundae,
00:09:53 the priest shows up and he prays at a staircase that commemorates the clergy, the religious,
00:10:00 martyred by the French Revolution. So this guy, the chutzpah, to show up to France to say,
00:10:06 your policies are evil. They're completely immoral. I don't care if your legislature passes 0.57
00:10:10 them. They're completely evil and immoral on abortion, on assisted suicide, not just France, 0.63
00:10:14 but all of Europe. By the way, your revolution was evil too, which it was. The French revolution
00:10:20 was one of the most evil acts ever in the history of the world. So he goes and he prays at the 0.99
00:10:24 staircase for the martyrs of the French revolutionaries, those who were martyred by
00:10:29 the French revolutionaries, I should say. And the open air mass took place at the Place de la
00:10:33 Concorde, which was the site of the executions by guillotine in the French Revolution, when the
00:10:40 Catholic monarchs, the king and the queen, were executed by the liberal revolutionaries.
00:10:46 Okay, what do we take from this? Even if you're not Catholic, what do we take from this?
00:10:50 I can't help but notice that all of these empires have tried to destroy the church.
00:10:55 The French Revolution was fought to destroy the church in no small part.
00:10:58 The Ancien Régime, which was taking aim at the monarchy, but also at the church.
00:11:03 The people who sat on the right of the National Assembly were the defenders of the monarch and the church.
00:11:07 The people who sat on the left of the National Assembly, it's where we get political right and left from,
00:11:11 they were the ones who took aim at the monarchy and the church.
00:11:14 And after that revolution, almost 250 years later, the revolutionary governments fell and fell and fell.
00:11:23 How many republics have we had in France thus far?
00:11:26 But the church remains firm.
00:11:27 How about the other empires that tried to destroy the church, the Soviet Union and all of the Soviet Union satellites?
00:11:32 throughout the 20th century. They tried to destroy not just orthodoxy in Russia,
00:11:38 but also the Catholic church. And guess what? They failed. The Nazis tried to destroy the
00:11:42 Catholic church. They failed. Half a dozen Islamic caliphates over history tried to destroy
00:11:47 the Catholic church. They failed. Revolutionary France, as I mentioned twice, really took aim at
00:11:53 the church the first time around and in the third republic. All the descendants of all the liberal 0.51
00:11:58 polities that came about because of the French Revolution. Let's go back a little further.
00:12:02 The Roman Empire tried to destroy the Catholic Church. Guess what? The Catholic Church remains.
00:12:07 The Roman Empire is long gone. Spanish Republicans, we call them the Republicans. 1.00
00:12:12 They were the communists in Spain that happily Francisco Franco defeated. Those Spanish 1.00
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00:12:28 The Mexican revolutionaries, the Italian nationalists, on and on and on and on and on.
00:12:33 How many political powers have said, it's over, the church has done the age of mystery and mysticism and superstition.
00:12:40 They call it, that's over, and now we have this enlightened form of government.
00:12:45 And guess what?
00:12:45 They all met the dust, and the church remains.
00:12:51 It's really inspiring stuff.
00:12:52 There's a lot of bad politics going on right now, and yet you look at that and you say,
00:12:56 goodness gracious, maybe God actually does have a hand in history. Maybe he actually controls
00:13:01 history. Maybe it's all going to end up all right, despite a lot of trouble in the meantime. Okay.
00:13:05 A lot of people have questions. I mean, because Catholicism is really on the rise in France.
00:13:10 Baptisms are way, way up year over year. 35 plus percent increases in baptisms year over year.
00:13:17 We're seeing this happen in the United States too, but especially in France. And so in the US,
00:13:21 Catholicism also was dominating the headlines last week because of the beatification of Fulton
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00:13:51 beatified. So that's another step on the way to being canonized a saint. And as part of the
00:13:56 beatification and the mass and the ceremony, the church showed his jawbone. They took his jawbone
00:14:03 from this dead archbishop, and they put it in a reliquary, and people venerated this relic.
00:14:09 And a lot of minor people say, this is freaky, man. It's weird. Some are accusing it of being
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00:15:49 out by the fact that at Archbishop TV star Fulton Sheen's beatification, his jawbone,
00:15:57 like his lower jaw, was put on display and venerated as a holy relic. And that kind of
00:16:01 makes sense for a guy who was best known for broadcasting and evangelizing and speaking and
00:16:06 preaching that his jawbone would be the major relic that is put up for veneration. But a lot
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00:16:24 pull out here, even beyond the religious aspect. Where do we get the idea of relics from? Well,
00:16:31 we get the idea of relics from the Old Testament, the bones of Elisha, which heals someone when he
00:16:37 touches the bones. We get it from the New Testament, where people are touching Christ's
00:16:42 garment and they receive a kind of power, where people are touching cloth to St. Paul and sending
00:16:48 that out because they believed that the physical carries some kind of importance, some kind of
00:16:54 significance, even for our faith. Don't forget, Christianity, unlike the pagan religions,
00:16:59 unlike a lot of modern spirituality, Christianity is incarnate. One of the main things that
00:17:07 distinguishes Christianity from all the other religions is we believe that the physical really
00:17:11 matters. The central fact of our religion is the incarnation when God takes on flesh and dwells
00:17:17 among us and is really crucified. The Muslims deny that Christ was crucified. They say in the
00:17:22 Quran, they crucified him not. Then Christ is bodily resurrected. Judaism says that Christ
00:17:29 was not bodily resurrected. It's interesting that the two errors around Christianity that you get
00:17:34 from Islam and from Judaism are both different aspects of the passion and the resurrection,
00:17:40 one denying the crucifixion, one denying the resurrection, but they both have to do with
00:17:43 the body. They say, no, it cannot be the case that God has a body and that he died and then
00:17:49 the body was resurrected. It's just not possible. And yet that is the central fact, the central
00:17:53 claim of Christianity is that God shares in our human nature, that he comes to save us by taking
00:17:59 on our human nature, like us in all ways except for sin. And so the body really, really matters.
00:18:05 And for people who are freaked out by relics and stuff, I'm very relic-filled. I'm very pro-relic.
00:18:10 But for those who are a little freaked out by it, you have to ask yourself, where does this come
00:18:14 from? Does it come from some weird superstition in the Middle Ages? Does it come from a pagan
00:18:17 practice? No. One of the earliest examples that we have available to us comes from the martyrdom
00:18:25 of Polycarp. Polycarp was a disciple of John the Apostle, of St. John. Polycarp is martyred in
00:18:33 about 155 AD. And we have the text, the martyrdom of Polycarp, that was written shortly thereafter.
00:18:39 Here's what the martyrdom of Polycarp says the earliest Christians, some of the very earliest
00:18:44 Christians did after Polycarp was martyred. It says, the centurion then, seeing the strife
00:18:50 excited by the Jews, placed the body in the midst of the fire and consumed it. So the pagans 0.91
00:18:55 cremate Polycarp. We'll get to cremation in a second, because that also created some controversy.
00:18:59 But the pagans cremate Polycarp, and so all that's left is his bones. And we are told from the second
00:19:05 century, earliest Christian communities, accordingly, we Christians afterwards took up
00:19:11 his bones as being more precious than the most exquisite jewels and more purified than gold
00:19:16 and deposited them in a fitting place wither being gathered as opportunity has allowed us
00:19:20 with joy and rejoicing the Lord shall grant us to celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom
00:19:26 both in memory of those who have already finished their course and for the exercising and preparation
00:19:31 of those yet to walk in their steps. So one of the earliest Christian texts that we possess
00:19:37 regarding one of the most important early Christian figures who was a disciple to John
00:19:43 the Apostle himself, describes the veneration of relics. And this confounds us because a lot of
00:19:51 what passes for modern Christianity says this is wrong, that this is somehow idolatry, that this
00:19:55 is weird, that it's pagan, that it's superstitious. And yet, the earliest Christians said exactly the 0.70
00:20:01 opposite. Said, no, no, no, there's nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, this is what we do to 0.97
00:20:06 one of the very earliest martyrs. We gather up his bones as being more precious than jewels,
00:20:12 and we have celebrations around them. Not worship. We don't make idols out of them.
00:20:17 We don't believe that the bones have some kind of intrinsic power in them, but we recognize that
00:20:24 there is a significance to this physical relic, this physical remain of someone in whom we know
00:20:31 very seriously dwelt the Holy Spirit, very manifestly dwelt the Holy Spirit.
00:20:36 and we know that he's part of the body of Christ, and so we venerate that.
00:20:39 And so I guess my takeaway from this is both at the religious level and at the political level. 0.80
00:20:46 I don't think that I understand Christianity better than Polycarp did. 0.98
00:20:51 I guess that's it. 1.00
00:20:52 Even when the early Christians, they did some weird stuff. 0.97
00:20:54 You know, they did some stuff that's like kind of weird and confounds modern sensibilities. 0.76
00:20:58 But I don't claim to believe, as a lot of progressives do in politics,
00:21:03 as a lot of modernists do in religion.
00:21:06 I don't claim to be the wiser, smarter,
00:21:11 purer, more orthodox Christian
00:21:13 than the people who learned from the apostles directly.
00:21:17 This is at the religious level.
00:21:19 You have these people that sometimes say,
00:21:20 well, yes, but those early Christians, 1.00
00:21:22 they were kind of too stupid 1.00
00:21:23 and influenced by paganism and confused. 1.00
00:21:25 And so it was only we enlightened people
00:21:27 in the 19th century,
00:21:28 we discovered the true form of Christianity.
00:21:30 I don't buy that.
00:21:31 forget about the particular religious claims. I just, that's like the wrong epistemology. I just
00:21:37 don't think that's how we come to know things. Same thing goes for politics. You hear this all
00:21:42 the time from the libs, especially on the left, but a little bit on the right too. They'll say,
00:21:45 well, the founding fathers and the framers, they were a bunch of hypocrites and they were kind of 1.00
00:21:50 stupid. And they stumbled onto a basically good idea that all men are created equal and were 1.00
00:21:55 endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, but they didn't really know what it meant.
00:21:59 They were a bunch of dummies, and it took us, 250 years later, in our enlightened form of progressive liberalism, it took us to really understand what they meant.
00:22:10 That's the same thing. 0.95
00:22:11 It's just a form of progressivism, a form of modernism applied alternately to politics and religion.
00:22:17 I just don't buy it.
00:22:19 On the point of cremation, I got in trouble yesterday.
00:22:21 Then we'll move on from religion because there's some really – I want to stick on religion for a while because there's really brutal political news, but we have to get to it.
00:22:27 But in any case, I mentioned with regard to some of this conversation about relics and all the rest, the importance of the body.
00:22:33 I made this point yesterday on Twitter that went really, really viral.
00:22:38 And it was someone asking why the church historically has opposed cremation.
00:22:45 And now, as the influence of the church in our political order has waned, cremation is more popular.
00:22:51 And I said, well, the reason is cremation mocks the resurrection of the body.
00:22:55 We Christians believe in the resurrection of the body.
00:22:57 not just the resurrection of the spirit, not just the resurrection of the soul,
00:23:00 but the resurrection of the body, that we're going to have glorified bodies someday.
00:23:04 And cremation mocks that idea by burning the body and turning it to ash.
00:23:10 Whereas burial or entombment or something, your body is still going to decay,
00:23:16 but it shows a greater kind of reverence for the body.
00:23:19 And on this point of cremation versus relics, relics, the veneration of relics,
00:23:24 calls attention to the resurrection of the body.
00:23:26 calls attention to the importance of the physical, even in the eschaton, even in the new heaven and
00:23:31 the new earth. That was the point. And a lot of people got really upset. They said, Michael,
00:23:35 the church permits cremation. And that's true. Since 1963, the Catholic church has permitted
00:23:40 cremation. But from the year AD 33 until 1963, the church did not. Except in the rarest of cases,
00:23:51 You know, someone dies in a fire or someone dies in war and it's difficult to recover the remains.
00:23:56 But as a general rule, cremation was not permitted.
00:24:00 And so it's permitted now.
00:24:02 But to me, that is one of the aspects of modernity. 0.90
00:24:06 The fact that in modernity, we have returned not to Christendom, but to paganism.
00:24:11 And so much of what the Renaissance was about and the modern era was about was a rejection of the dark ages of Christianity and scholasticism.
00:24:19 and a return to the supposedly brilliant ideas of paganism.
00:24:22 And along with that came different pagan practices, including cremation,
00:24:25 which you see here in the martyrdom of Polycarp.
00:24:28 It wasn't the early Christians who cremated Polycarp.
00:24:30 It was the Romans. 0.76
00:24:31 It was the centurions who cremated Polycarp. 1.00
00:24:35 It's the pagan religions of the East. 0.73
00:24:38 They tend to engage in cremation a lot more. 0.96
00:24:42 You see this on the banks of the Ganges or whatever. 0.96
00:24:45 That's not the Christian idea.
00:24:47 And so then anyway, people were all sort of fighting about all of this.
00:24:51 And this once again gets to a political takeaway, but it applies to religion and culture and
00:24:57 all manner of, all fields of knowledge, which is, do you think you're smarter than Polycarp?
00:25:05 Forget about smarter. Do you think that you understand the things that Polycarp especially
00:25:11 understood better than Polycarp did. Do you think that we in modernity, that we've just
00:25:17 discovered that the church was totally wrong about something for the first 1,963 years of
00:25:22 its existence, and that we figured it out? Because if you believe that, if you think
00:25:28 that just everyone who came before us was totally wrong, just profoundly wrong, and we figured
00:25:33 everything out, that is a mark of liberalism and progressivism in everything, applied to religion,
00:25:40 applied to family dynamics, applied to the political order, applied to immigration,
00:25:46 applied to economics, applied to whatever. That's it. And so I would just encourage people
00:25:50 who are really freaked out by things that are very ancient and very traditional, that is not
00:25:56 only ancient, but that have endured for a very long time. If you're really freaked out by that,
00:26:00 there are two dispositions you can have. You can either respond to that by saying, man,
00:26:05 they were nuts. I'm glad that we live in the modern times where we're not so dumb anymore. 1.00
00:26:08 or you can ask yourself okay why did they do that is it possible that they understood something that
00:26:15 we do not i think i mean bringing it just full circle the fact that we get back to the pope's
00:26:20 visit to france and all these modern ideologies after 2 000 years all these different religions
00:26:26 and schisms and empires and the fact that they've all fallen and the ancient faith
00:26:34 Draws almost a million people to the Champs-Élysées
00:26:36 doing all the old things,
00:26:38 talking about all the old issues
00:26:39 with all the old doctrine.
00:26:41 That is a great consolation for conservatives.
00:26:45 Now, a bad thing for conservatives
00:26:47 is that right now the polls show
00:26:49 we are going to get absolutely obliterated
00:26:51 in the midterms.
00:26:52 I think there's a few things we could do
00:26:54 to turn it around.
00:26:54 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:29:19 real solutions for real people. Before we get to the bad news, I'm doing everything I can to delay
00:29:25 the bad political news in South Carolina, in the other races. But before we get to that,
00:29:30 I just have one. For anyone who I haven't driven crazy with my opinions on euthanasia or abortion
00:29:37 or relics or cremation or the church or whatever, I'm now going to drive everybody crazy. Probably
00:29:42 my most controversial opinion maybe I've ever expressed on this show, but I have to make it
00:29:48 because I think the whole culture is wrong about this.
00:29:52 It's about baseball.
00:29:53 Yesterday, Justin Verlander pitched his last game.
00:29:57 A legendary pitcher, 21-year career,
00:30:01 multiple Cy Young Awards.
00:30:03 You know, he's really, he's one of the greats.
00:30:04 He's one of the great pitchers.
00:30:05 And it was the end of his career,
00:30:07 and he pitches his last pitch.
00:30:09 And then this happened.
00:30:14 He's out there.
00:30:15 Okay, that was it.
00:30:16 That was my last pitch.
00:30:17 He looks off. He looks off to the dugout. What happens? His daughter comes running onto the
00:30:23 field. Look at the, oh, isn't that sweet? And he starts crying. Shoulders shaking. He starts crying. 1.00
00:30:30 You see the pitcher comes up, you know, a bunch of the guys from the team coming over. He's hugging
00:30:34 his daughter. It's bad for him, right? He's crying. This is it. The end of 21 years. One of the great
00:30:40 baseball careers. Wow. Okay. All right. Tears in his eyes. Little girl, cute little girl hugging
00:30:48 her dad. Oh, yeah. Hugging the manager, hugging everybody, hugging the coaches. Okay, great.
00:30:53 All right. Okay, you get it. He's crying. Oh, yeah. All right. He's trying to get his act
00:30:58 together. Then he walks off the field, tips his cap, goes into the dugout. Everybody loved this.
00:31:03 Everybody loved this. This was so sweet. I did not love this. I didn't. I didn't love this.
00:31:11 I'm judging by the responses to my opining on it.
00:31:14 I'm the only person in the United States who actually didn't like this display.
00:31:19 But here's why.
00:31:21 Here's why.
00:31:22 To quote John Updike, gods do not answer letters.
00:31:29 That's what John Updike wrote when Ted Williams retired.
00:31:33 Ted Williams, one of the all-time great baseball players ever.
00:31:37 He hits a home run for his last plate appearance.
00:31:40 That's it.
00:31:41 His career is one of the greatest players ever.
00:31:43 Hits a home run for his last play.
00:31:44 The crowd is going crazy.
00:31:46 They want a speech.
00:31:47 They want something.
00:31:48 They want whatever.
00:31:49 He runs the bases, goes into the dugout.
00:31:51 They say, well, at least come on out of the dugout.
00:31:53 Tip your hat to us, right?
00:31:55 He won't do it.
00:31:57 Ted Williams, forget about he didn't cry.
00:31:59 He didn't have his daughter run up on the field.
00:32:01 He didn't do this.
00:32:01 He didn't do that.
00:32:03 He didn't.
00:32:04 He wouldn't even tip the cap.
00:32:05 No, he's just a man doing his job.
00:32:07 Just like you do your job.
00:32:09 Just like everybody else.
00:32:10 he goes he does his job he does a good job and the reward is the work itself baseball is the last
00:32:17 sport that does that all the other sports have this third world nonsense where everybody starts
00:32:24 doing crazy dances in the end zone and wearing a bunch of bling and behaving like emotionally
00:32:30 incontinent toddlers and baseball was the last sport where they keep they just kind of keep it
00:32:38 together. You hit the grand slam until recently. Now, even my beloved New York Yankees are doing
00:32:42 this where they're getting a little too frivolous, a little too self-indulgent. They're making weird
00:32:48 hand gestures. Jazz Chisholm, who's a very talented ballplayer, but he's like dancing
00:32:51 all over the bag. I don't want to see that. I want to see Nolan Ryan. He pitches out at a batter.
00:32:58 A batter comes running up to him as he's going to charge them out. Nolan Ryan puts him in a headlock,
00:33:02 punches him in the head six times. The batter gets thrown out of the game. Nolan Ryan just
00:33:07 gets back up on the mound like nothing happened. I want to see Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig, who one of
00:33:13 the greatest baseball players ever would have had an amazingly even longer career, but he gets
00:33:19 struck down by one of the most torture-inducing painful illnesses ever. So horrific. They named
00:33:25 the disease after him, Lou Gehrig disease. What does he do? Does he get up to the microphone?
00:33:28 He says, today I consider myself just really emotional. No, he gets up there. He says,
00:33:34 today I consider myself one of the luckiest guys in the face of the earth. Okay. All right. Bye.
00:33:38 Thanks. Thanks, everybody. I'm real lucky. That's it. I'm reminded of Tony Soprano talking to his
00:33:45 therapist. Let me tell you something. Nowadays, everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors
00:33:52 and go on Sally, Jesse, Raphael and talk about their problems. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper,
00:33:58 the strong silent type that was an american he wasn't in touch with his feelings he just did
00:34:05 what he had to do so what they didn't know was once they got gary cooper in touch with his feelings
00:34:10 that they wouldn't be able to shut him up and then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that
00:34:14 dysfunction my fungo dysfunction this and dysfunction that he's totally right he's
00:34:19 tony is totally right about this and do you know it's not it's not just that tony's being a
00:34:24 contrarian. It's not even just machismo, you know, look, I'm a man would never cry. It's deeper than
00:34:30 that. The key here is that the emotion can be more beautifully conveyed with restraint.
00:34:44 Think about the great poems. Are the great poems the free verse, weird slam poetry?
00:34:51 yeah and then my dad said pop and i had to go hop hop hop and i cried and i'm gay and i'm this and
00:35:00 i'm that you know it's like every slam slam poetry performance no the great poems are restricted
00:35:07 they're limited by meter and verse generally speaking the great baseball players these great
00:35:13 moments the poignancy of lou gehrig saying yeah i'm about to die in torture and and the one of
00:35:19 greatest baseball careers is going to be cut short because of the disease eating away my insides
00:35:23 and entrapping me in my own body. But, you know, I'm a lucky guy. Okay, thanks, everybody.
00:35:29 The great Ted Williams just, yeah, I did my job. No, I'm not even going to tip my cap. Sorry,
00:35:33 thank you. Bye. There is so much more vitality. There is so much more meaning. It chokes you up
00:35:44 more, almost as the audience, when the performer does not allow himself to get carried away with
00:35:51 the emotion. So again, I don't mean to be too tough on Verlander. It was nice. It was very
00:35:56 sweet. It's nice. You know, I'm a father of four kids. It's very, it's lovely to see,
00:36:00 but I don't want to see that. I don't want to see, I especially don't want to see that from
00:36:03 baseball. One of the last redoubts of emotional restraint and continence in this entire freaking
00:36:08 country. As we become incontinent, as we become a country that no longer has the strong silent 0.85
00:36:15 types, we're not going to just get in touch with our feelings and live in a sort of happy age of
00:36:23 Aquarius. We're going to be a country of whiners, and we're going to be a country of complainers.
00:36:31 We're going to be a country of people that can't interact together. And more serious countries
00:36:34 is going to take us over. Congratulations to Justin Verlander. Okay. Okay. All right. Speaking
00:36:39 of retirement, Darlene Graham, the Republican Senator in South Carolina, not looking good for 0.97
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00:39:06 real solutions for real people. My favorite comment yesterday is from Tornado Acron,
00:39:13 who says, as a woman, the idea of running the whole world for even three months terrifies me. 0.90
00:39:19 I was referring to Obama, who says the whole world should be run by women for two years. 1.00
00:39:22 Everything would get better. 0.99
00:39:24 Says Obama, yes, is clearly lying, but also clearly has no idea what women are actually 0.98
00:39:28 like with each other. 1.00
00:39:29 So true.
00:39:30 Preach, sister.
00:39:31 Preach. 1.00
00:39:32 You go, girl. 1.00
00:39:34 Believe all women.
00:39:35 Believe that woman.
00:39:36 Believe that woman out there.
00:39:37 Do not believe Barack Obama about anything.
00:39:41 The midterms are looking rough, and they're especially looking rough.
00:39:45 Well, no, they're looking rough everywhere. 1.00
00:39:47 I guess we can see, especially clearly, how rough they're looking because of the South Carolina race. 0.99
00:39:53 Darlene Graham, the late Lindsey Graham's sister, was appointed to fill out the rest of his term. 1.00
00:40:00 This is not uncommon.
00:40:01 Sometimes when a senator dies in office, his wife is appointed to fill out the rest of the term.
00:40:07 Lindsey Graham was not married.
00:40:09 The person he was closest to was his sister, Darlene, whom he helped raise.
00:40:12 And so Darlene was appointed to fill out the rest of his term.
00:40:14 I think that was a nice thing to do.
00:40:15 perfectly reasonable, good move from Trump. Then she decides she's going to run for re-election. 1.00
00:40:22 So not just to fill out Lindsey Graham's term, she's going to run for her own term. 0.99
00:40:26 That was a little more controversial. You had some other decent candidates who were going to 1.00
00:40:30 throw their hat in the ring, but whatever. She wins the primary. Now she's looking rough. 1.00
00:40:37 There's a new poll out from Trafalgar Group found that Darlene Graham is leading her opponent,
00:40:42 Annie Andrews, by just one point. So certainly within the margin of error, margin of error is
00:40:48 three points. There's 8% undecided, so it's anybody's race, but it's statistically a tie
00:40:53 right now. Now, you might say, like I want to say, well, that's just one polling firm. Maybe
00:40:58 Trafalgar just got the numbers wrong. There's another poll, Insider Advantage poll was released
00:41:02 earlier this month, had Darlene Graham leading the race by just two points. Now, there was another 0.97
00:41:09 survey in mid-August, Impact Research, which was sponsored by the Democrat campaign, so take it
00:41:14 with a grain of salt. That showed the candidates were tied. But okay, you have one candidate survey,
00:41:19 but then two non-candidate surveys coming out. Trafalgar is a fairly conservative-leaning
00:41:24 poll firm, all showing that it's a tie race. This should not be a tie race. This is South Carolina.
00:41:30 This is South Carolina. What are we doing? I am not a panic-an. All these people,
00:41:36 they they worry themselves i'm speaking of the catholic faith i'm with padre pio pray hope and
00:41:41 don't worry but i like to be realistic too things are looking very very tough all these people now
00:41:50 they're turning on trump i'm not turning on trump trump is the best president of my lifetime i love
00:41:53 trump i think he's great i think there's i think the gop has done a lot of great stuff really
00:41:58 mostly because of trump in the administration we've gotten a lot of wins even in the last
00:42:02 year and a half. But that is not how the voters are perceiving it at this juncture.
00:42:11 Voting is happening. Early voting in California begins in seven days.
00:42:17 Mail-in voting has already begun. And right now, the Democrats are winning.
00:42:24 And the Democrats are winning because they are making this race a referendum on the Iran war,
00:42:29 which is unpopular. Iran war is polling at about 32%. And President Trump, even when he launched
00:42:34 the most recent Iran war, he didn't launch it in the way that Bush launched Iraq, saying this is
00:42:39 so important and great and we're going to remake the whole world and the Middle East is going to
00:42:44 be like a Madisonian democracy. He didn't do that. Trump was way more realistic. He said, look, we
00:42:48 got to take a little detour because we have this existential threat from Iran getting a nuclear 0.97
00:42:51 weapon. You can disagree on the prudence of how to read the intelligence and the most practical 0.59
00:42:57 course to remedy the situation. You can do that all you want. But I'm just pointing out,
00:43:02 President Trump launched the war on the grounds of prudence and practicality too.
00:43:06 It was not some wild ideological crusade. And the trouble is, having launched that war,
00:43:14 the Democrats are now seizing on it as an opportunity to channel all of the voter
00:43:19 frustrations for the midterm elections. They're blaming the economy on the Iran war with a little
00:43:24 bit of justification, but not a ton. They're blaming the neglect of domestic issues that
00:43:29 Democrats would only make worse, but they're blaming that on the Iran war. They're on and on
00:43:33 and on. They're just focusing it on the Iran war. There's a temptation among Republicans to then
00:43:38 answer those attacks and say, no, the Iran war actually was good, or the Iran war was defensible,
00:43:44 or the Iran war isn't chiefly responsible for inflation. Because yes, while diesel is over
00:43:50 $6 a gallon right now. Actually, the price of Brent crude has been relatively low for the last
00:43:54 five months. And actually, the cause of inflation was all of the inflation under the Biden era,
00:43:59 which came down a lot, but it doesn't actually reduce the cost of goods in most cases,
00:44:03 except for maybe in the case of eggs. And actually, it's monetary policy that is
00:44:07 chiefly responsible for inflation because of the interest rates of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:44:10 blah, blah. Quote our friend, our old dead friend, Ronald Reagan, who is venerated as a saint by
00:44:17 many conservatives. When you're explaining you're losing, you can't do that.
00:44:25 The Iran war could be the most just, brilliant war ever. It actually could turn out well in the 0.88
00:44:33 long run. It's not going to turn out well in the short run. But in the long run, it actually could
00:44:36 turn out well. And if it does turn out well, it'd be the greatest stroke of grand strategic genius
00:44:39 by a president in the last 30 years. But in the short run, none of that matters.
00:44:44 There is no way for the Republicans to talk about the Iran war without giving something to the
00:44:49 Democrats. Some people don't understand a lot in politics, but it's like the difference between
00:44:55 a reporter and an editor at a newspaper. The reporter talks about the facts of the story.
00:45:01 The editor decides what stories to talk about. And there are certain stories that are just bad
00:45:07 for you, even if in an objective sense, they're justifiable. Even if you can explain to everybody,
00:45:13 doesn't matter. So that's the Iran war for the Republicans right now. What could the Republicans
00:45:17 focus on? They could focus on immigration. They could focus on the fact that Democrats
00:45:22 have flooded the country and promised to continue to flood the country with millions and millions
00:45:25 of illegals. And President Trump has gotten rid of two and a half million illegals and almost 0.65
00:45:30 three million of the foreign born percentage of the population in just a year and a half. That's
00:45:34 very impressive. It's very popular. That's the sort of issue that could win the popular vote in
00:45:38 2024. We could talk about violence. We could talk about the fact that the left not only has
00:45:45 tried to murder the president of the United States multiple times, not only succeeded at
00:45:50 murdering our most prominent conservative activist, but continues to justify the murder
00:45:56 of conservatives. That the leading Democrat thought leader, Hassan Piker, openly calls for
00:46:01 the murder of senators, wants to kill ordinary Republicans for being to the right of Hillary
00:46:06 Clinton. We could talk about further predations that they want to go in and spy on your churches 0.82
00:46:11 and treat parents and churchgoers and Christians as domestic violent extremists, as we saw under
00:46:18 Joe Biden. We could talk about how they want to send CPS to your house to take your kids away if
00:46:22 you don't want to trans your kids. Let's talk about transing your kids. That's a major social issue. 1.00
00:46:27 Let's talk about the LGBT indoctrination in kindergarten. Let's talk about all of those issues 0.54
00:46:31 that we win on those are the 80 20 issues those are the 90 10 issues and in as much as we have
00:46:39 to address the iran war we just point out this is this the iran war was a a matter of prudence
00:46:46 and practicality on which reasonable minds might disagree and the democrats are are harping on it
00:46:53 out of pure convenience out of pure cynicism and they're blaming a bunch of unrelated things
00:46:58 on the Iran war. If you look at two issues, immigration and the Iran war, and you say,
00:47:06 hey, what is raising the cost of your goods? What is raising the cost of your rents? What is raising
00:47:11 the cost of your healthcare? What is raising the cost of your housing? It is 999 times out of a
00:47:17 thousand immigration, the kind of mass migration that the Democrats want to make worse. It is not
00:47:22 the Iran war. Whatever bad things have come about as a consequence of the Iran war, it ain't that.
00:47:28 it's migration.
00:47:30 Focus on those kinds of issues.
00:47:31 One little,
00:47:32 I don't want to leave you
00:47:33 too doomer, 1.00
00:47:35 too black-pilled
00:47:36 on the midterm.
00:47:37 So,
00:47:37 the one silver lining
00:47:39 we might have here
00:47:39 is
00:47:41 that Hasan Piker,
00:47:43 the leading
00:47:43 left-wing thought leader,
00:47:44 such as it is,
00:47:45 who campaigns
00:47:46 with all the big Democrat candidates,
00:47:47 who is embraced
00:47:48 by all the big Democrat candidates,
00:47:49 who's platformed
00:47:50 by the New York Times
00:47:51 multiple times approvingly,
00:47:53 that guy,
00:47:54 this guy who says
00:47:55 he fantasizes
00:47:56 about murdering Charlie Kirk
00:47:57 and then
00:47:58 two days after Charlie Kirk is murdered, the New York Times turns to him for his wisdom,
00:48:02 platformed by all the elite left-wing institutions. Hassan Piker has an argument for the Democrats
00:48:07 in 2026, and that is you need to talk more about how much you want to trans the kids.
00:48:15 We should not cede the framing to the right just because it has been deployed oftentimes by the
00:48:21 right. We are the normal ones. It is less normal to constantly freak out about transgender people
00:48:28 than it is to just let trans people live. Okay. Most people, most people, partially because of 0.94
00:48:36 law and order SVU, let's do a call back to that. Okay. Actually don't care about trans people
00:48:41 existing in society. Okay. But on the internet, that's the only thing that the Republicans 1.00
00:48:46 dial in on and they make it seem like being transgender is abnormal you know what's abnormal 0.97
00:48:51 constantly worrying about children's genitals that is the most weirdo freak of all time okay 0.95
00:48:58 okay so right there he snuck that little claim he goes being transgender is totally normal 0.91
00:49:03 okay now hold on whatever you want to say about the trans issue it isn't normal right you can say 0.52
00:49:10 it's acceptable it should be tolerated you even say it's good to say it's normal shows you how to
00:49:15 how out of touch this guy is and how out of touch his whole party is. But then listen to his
00:49:19 argument. His argument is that it is not the left that has foisted transgenderism on our kids
00:49:26 that is weird. It is the conservatives who object to it. And they do this all the freaking time.
00:49:35 But what he is saying as a practical matter is trans people should just be allowed to live. 0.98
00:49:40 Well, no one's calling them murderable. We're just saying that the fellas should get out of
00:49:44 the women's bathroom and get out of the women's sports and stop twerking in front of our five-year-olds 1.00
00:49:50 at the public library. I think that's a pretty modest ask, wouldn't you say? And the conclusion 0.99
00:49:55 of this is that some big, mentally ill pervert goes into a little girl's changing room at the 1.00
00:50:04 public pool. He says, hey, kids, isn't it great being a lady? Okay, look at my nude, hairy body. 0.99
00:50:11 That's what the guy does. 0.97
00:50:13 And then you, the parents say, hey, man, get out of there.
00:50:19 Don't do that.
00:50:21 And Hassan Piker comes rushing and he says, hey, hey, hey, 0.99
00:50:23 leave the trans hairy men stripping in front of your daughter. 1.00
00:50:28 Leave him alone. 1.00
00:50:28 Why are you such a weirdo? 0.81
00:50:31 Why are you so obsessed with this issue? 0.71
00:50:33 See, I'm not obsessed with this issue.
00:50:35 I don't want to talk about this issue either.
00:50:36 but we had for approximately all of history everywhere we had a society that didn't tolerate
00:50:44 this and then about 10 years ago you changed it and you said we have to tolerate this and then
00:50:51 you shoved it in our faces all the time in the locker rooms in the kindergarten classrooms in
00:50:56 everywhere and now you're complaining that we're talking about it i'll tell you what i'll make you
00:51:00 deal. Let's go back to how things always were everywhere for all of time, and we'll stop talking
00:51:07 about that weird thing you did. But they won't take that deal. Hassan Piker says, we got to lean
00:51:12 into it, we Democrats. We got to make this election about transing the kids. Great. Please, Hassan,
00:51:21 lead your people. You are the most prominent left-wing thought leader, such as it is.
00:51:28 Please lead your people.
00:51:29 Democrats, listen to your leader. 0.74
00:51:31 Make this election about transing the kids. 1.00
00:51:34 And we'll win South Carolina. 0.71
00:51:35 And we'll win Michigan.
00:51:36 And we'll do a lot better than people are predicting right now.
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00:51:57 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. 0.98
00:52:01 You're a traitor! Uncle Tom! 1.00
00:52:02 This is our generation's civil rights!
00:52:04 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:52:06 Bingo!
00:52:07 Given the current climate,
00:52:08 we should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders
00:52:11 could even be allowed on Kansas.
00:52:12 Ah, can you hear me okay?
00:52:13 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Freeman.
00:52:16 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:52:17 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:52:20 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00
00:52:24 Are we paying attention? 0.99
00:52:25 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
00:52:30 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:52:34 We cannot run and hide.
00:52:36 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:52:39 There is no God but Allah.
00:52:42 What do you say? 1.00
00:52:44 We turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 0.99
00:52:48 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:52:52 They call that leap project.
00:52:53 You need a course in safe weapons handling.